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While consciously engaging with contemporary racial discourse, The Trackers ultimately demonstrates the commercial and ideological limitations placed upon a 1970s made-for-television product seeking to achieve racial relevance.
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Outta Sight, Outta Mind: The Trackers and the Strategic Erasure of Indigenous Conflict

As you may surmise from the title, The Trackers (1971) is a watered-down, made-for-television ripoff of The Searchers with a little In the Heat of the Night thrown in. The filmmakers, however, seem…